Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend-Leaning)

About Collate   Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.   Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.   We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.     About the Role   We’re looking for a Full-Stack Engineer (Backend-leaning) to design and build the systems and user-facing features that power Collate. You’ll spend most of your time on backend challenges—APIs, services, and infrastructure—but you’ll also ship end-to-end features.   This is an opportunity to help define our technical foundation, collaborate directly with design and product, and shape how our users exp